Shovelling coal at Chas. H Davis’s

Exservicepersons club. The entrance to the club was on Danesbury crescent when it first opened, the entrance was moved to Warren Farm road when the buildings were expanded and the membership got bigger. My father was a part time doorman there when he retired. He died in the club from a heart attack in 1982 after drinking a pint he had always said this is the way he wanted to go. May he rest in peace. Next door to the club in Danesbury crescent was Chas. H Davis’s coalyard. I worked there every saturday morning from the age of 15 till I went into the Paras at age 19 (when coal was available) shovelling coal into the scales from memory I think coal was about 4/6d a cwt. People lined up with their various conveyances to cart it away the favourite one being an old (sometimes not so old) babies pram.